A viral AI tool that helps people cheat in interviews and on the job turned its founder into a flashpoint, driving public backlash in San Francisco and spotlighting a tech-era split between an 'agentic' overclass and those likely to be displaced by AI.
Greenland's prime minister rejected President Trump's social media offer to send a US hospital ship, citing free public healthcare and urging direct dialogue with Greenland and Denmark.
Local media and officials say the Jalisco New Generation Cartel launched attacks in Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara airport and Veracruz after a federal operation that some outlets claim killed leader Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes; independent confirmation is pending.
IBEC researchers turned chitosan from shrimp shells into a biodegradable film that increases strength when wet, reaches plastic-grade performance, and can be produced in a near-zero-waste cycle.
Using CRISPR to remove the gene FLI1 in human Natural Killer cells, researchers prevented nutrient-driven protein aggregate buildup that disables NK cells and showed improved tumor control in lab models, according to a study published in Immunity.
The Bundesliga side said concerns about unrest after two people were shot by ICE officers, tightened US entry rules and the club's relegation fight led them to abandon planned friendlies in Minnesota and Detroit.
A roughly 15 metre banner reading "Victory will be ours" appeared on the Russian embassy in Seoul on the morning of 21 February ahead of the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. South Korea has asked Moscow to take it down but the embassy refused, and Seoul says it cannot remove the banner by force under the Vienna Convention.
Meta, Google and other U.S. tech firms are running ads, hiring lobbyists and courting swing lawmakers in the European Union as they push alternatives to blanket bans on teenage social media use.
In a new Italian book of interviews with Vaticanist Elise Ann Allen, the Pontiff says he will welcome individuals but does not expect a near term change to Church teachings on sexuality and marriage and calls for attitude change before doctrinal shifts.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, was reported killed during a dawn army operation in Jalisco; Mexico's defense ministry said he died of injuries while being airlifted. Local reports said street violence followed and the US had previously offered a $15 million reward.
A systematic review in Translational Psychiatry of 17 rodent experiments found caffeine consistently eased anxiety and depression behaviors, linked to lower neuroinflammation, reduced oxidative stress, and higher protective brain factors.
Researchers demonstrated a complete read and write system that uses ultrashort laser pulses to inscribe data in ordinary glass, fitting two million books into a palm-sized square and projecting a readable lifetime beyond 10,000 years.
FT reports at least two December AWS incidents involved an internal AI assistant and employee actions; Amazon calls the events limited, blames access controls, and says it has added safeguards.
An NSF-funded, multidisciplinary project at LSU is developing a 3D-printed, sensor-equipped exoskeleton optimized for female body shapes to improve PPE fit and cut strain injuries, with human trials planned.
The city removed data centers as a permitted use for the 22-acre Jersey-Sandford redevelopment area and directed that a park be built instead after public opposition.
Seagate and Western Digital say their 2026 HDD production is fully allocated to large cloud customers, leaving little open supply for other buyers and squeezing enterprise and midmarket storage plans.
Mexican authorities reported that Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was killed on Sunday during a military-led operation; he was wanted by US authorities and charged in a 2022 fentanyl case.
A computational analysis of 2,337 Reddit dream reports found self-identified synesthetes more often described dreams about digital life, interpersonal regret, diverse worlds, and violent conflict, but the sample relied on self-report and lacked clinical verification.
A Dutch Lifelines study of more than 15,500 people found that family factors and common genetic variants help explain who experiences 'aesthetic chills' such as goosebumps or shivers from art, music and poetry.
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A Harvard/Harris poll finds a majority view the U.S. economy is headed the wrong way while former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer says data have held up amid tariffs, slower hiring and policy uncertainty.
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Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz told CNBC the economy is weakening after declines in manufacturing and other blue-collar jobs, with tariffs cited as a contributor and a Supreme Court ruling putting $175 billion in tariff revenue at risk.
Freedom of Information documents show Palantir spent seven years courting Swiss federal offices and the army but was turned down repeatedly over legal, reputational and data sovereignty fears, and the army abandoned plans after a report warned US intelligence could access sensitive data.
The New York Times reports Iran’s supreme leader has set up layered succession plans and put Ali Larijani in charge of crisis decision making as regional and US threats rise.
Denmark says it was not informed of President Trump’s announcement that a hospital ship would be sent to Greenland and that the island does not need special health care support.
A Midgam poll for N12 finds younger Israelis are more right wing, more religious in practice, and more skeptical of institutions after October 7, even as their party loyalties remain unsettled.
US envoy Steve Witkoff says President Trump is 'curious' Iran has not yielded after threats of limited strikes and a major naval deployment, as indirect talks continue and university protests flare in Iran.
A Payscale preview shows growing interest in small, even raises as firms manage budgets, while nearly half of employers still tie pay increases to performance.
An internal Meta study called Project MYST, cited at a Los Angeles Superior Court trial, found parental supervision and app limits were not linked to teens' reported ability to moderate social media, and it found teens with stressful life events were more likely to struggle with overuse.
Platforms are rolling out age verification to comply with the law, but experiments with third-party vendors and reported data incidents have sparked fresh privacy and security concerns.
Intense snowfall, strong winds and weak snowpack led to dozens of avalanches in Tirol and Vorarlberg, killing several people and prompting large mountain rescue operations.
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said Hungary will act with caution on electricity exports to avoid harming ethnic Hungarians in Zakarpattia after a government energy council meeting, while Budapest continues pressure over the Druzhba oil pipeline dispute.
Authorities declared a national disaster after FMD spread across almost all nine provinces, prompting mass vaccination, culling and export bans that have crippled the livestock sector.
Pakistan says air raids hit seven alleged militant camps in retaliation for recent suicide bombings; the Taliban and local witnesses say strikes struck civilian areas in Nangarhar and Paktika, killing at least 18 people and prompting condemnation.
At a Feb 22 press conference, five Kurdish Iranian parties announced a unified coalition to coordinate political, media and operational efforts for Kurdish self-determination and democracy.
Air Assault Forces report restoring control of more than 300 sq km and eight settlements on the Oleksandrivka axis to halt a reported Russian advance in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
On Feb. 21 Ukraine's Armed Forces General Staff said its forces struck two Russian border patrol ships near Sevastopol, two Be-12 Chayka aircraft at Yevpatoria, and a Tornado-S multiple launch rocket system in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
An international team led by Paul Sereno uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis in Niger during a 2022 expedition, with the results published in Science.
Researchers used MHz-order surface reflected bulk waves to crystallise highly aligned nylon-11 films in one ambient, energy-efficient step, producing a delta-prime phase with a reported piezoelectric coefficient g33 of 427 × 10^-3 Vm N^-1 and strong mechanical resilience.
A Columbia Mailman School study of U.S. county data from 1988 to 2019 found higher rates of psychoactive drug-related deaths for months after tropical cyclone exposure, with the largest impacts among younger people and in wealthier White communities.
Analysis of California records and a national survey published in the Journal of Marriage and Family shows same-sex couples prefer marriage for legal protections, social clarity, and perceived commitment when both options are available.
Researchers identified a new bacteriophage in Bacteroides fragilis that appears roughly twice as often in people with colorectal cancer, but the study shows association not causation.
Geomorphologists mapped a straight 2 mile soil scarp near Brzegi, traced it to a previously unknown fault, and dated a rupture to 10,000 to 50,000 years ago using trenching and diffusion modeling.
A study of 385 offenders in Australian restorative justice meetings found that impartial observers could identify negative treatment that raised offenders' reported likelihood to reoffend, even when offenders did not report anger or perceive the mistreatment.
Across multiple conditioning protocols, mice and their mesolimbic dopamine signals learned more per trial when rewards were spaced further apart, making total conditioning time nearly constant despite far fewer trials.
EVs from SHANK3-deficient human iPSC cortical neurons transfer hyperexcitability and accelerated maturation to control neurons in vitro. EVs from mesenchymal stem cells and healthy iPSCs normalize neuronal activity and intranasal iPSC-EV treatment rescues ASD-like behaviors in Shank3B knockout mice.
A study in eBioMedicine reports that tirzepatide, a dual gut-hormone drug approved for diabetes and obesity, lowered alcohol intake, blunted reward signals and blocked relapse-like behavior in rodents, but human trials are still needed.
A qualitative study of top Instagram artists and YouTube musicians identifies a phenomenon called audience entanglement and outlines three strategies creators use to protect their well being and sustain their work.
A systematic review published in Intelligence of 131 studies reports that people who commit impulsive violence tend to score lower on full, verbal and nonverbal IQ tests, with small but consistent correlations across more than 33,000 participants.
Gladstone Institutes researchers report that under low-oxygen conditions red blood cells switch metabolism to absorb glucose in mice, cutting blood sugar and pointing to a new diabetes strategy.
Four planets orbit the red dwarf LHS 1903 in an unusual order—rocky, gas-rich, gas-rich, then rocky—prompting researchers to propose a reversed, gas-depleted formation sequence.
Researchers say incel narratives combine evolutionarily salient themes and cognitive hooks that make them unusually memorable and widely shared despite the group's small size.
Survey of 1,290 Norwegian teens aged 16 to 19 shows male overperception of female interest strengthens from mid to late teens while girls rarely have their romantic advances dismissed.
Powell is leaning on transparency, open debate and legal safeguards to make the Federal Reserve harder to sway with political pressure.
At a Georgia factory stop on his Affordability Tour, President Trump said he had "won affordability" while recent government data show utilities and food prices increasing.
Economic growth came in well below forecasts as the record federal shutdown and weaker consumer spending weighed on the quarter, while the Fed's preferred inflation gauge stayed above target.
After the Supreme Court ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize tariffs, President Trump issued an executive order using Section 122 to impose a 10% global tariff that takes effect immediately and lasts 150 days without congressional approval.
Early IRS data through Feb 13 shows the average individual refund at $2,476, total refunds rising while filings fall, amid competing claims from officials and politicians.
Roughly 300,000 US importers want $134 billion back after tariffs imposed under President Trump were struck down, but neither the Court nor the government has set a clear refund process or timeline.
Justices ruled 6-3 that President Trump exceeded IEEPA authority, remanding the case to the Court of International Trade and prompting estimates that more than $175 billion in tariff revenue could be reclaimed.
In a 6-3 decision the court invalidated the president’s use of a 1977 statute to impose sweeping import duties that generated most 2025 tariff revenue, narrowing emergency trade authority.
A majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts found that tariffs are a form of taxation that Congress, not the president, may impose and held the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize broad tariff powers for the executive.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichis LDP won a two-thirds majority and plans debt-financed tax cuts, triggering sharp jumps in Japanese government bond yields and forcing Tokyo to seek pension fund support as the Bank of Japan hesitates to fully reflate markets.
Two Bureau of Economic Analysis releases show the 2025 trade deficit barely moved and fourth-quarter GDP was far weaker than the numbers the president cited, and the Supreme Court struck down many of his tariffs.
After the Supreme Court limited his use of emergency powers, President Trump announced on Truth Social he will raise planned 10% global tariffs to 15% effective immediately, though timing and legal paperwork remain unclear.
President Trump said on Truth Social he will raise worldwide tariffs from 10% to 15% following a Supreme Court decision that limited his prior authority, but it is unclear whether formal orders have been signed.
Hedge funds and specialty firms that bought rights to possible tariff refunds at pennies on the dollar are positioned to earn large returns after the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs illegal, but whether the government must issue refunds remains unresolved.
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz told CNBC that manufacturing and other blue-collar jobs fell despite tariff efforts, automation poses growing risk, and a Supreme Court ruling undercuts the administration's tariff strategy.
President Donald Trump increased a worldwide tariff from 10% to 15% one day after first announcing it and criticized the US Supreme Court for ruling his preferred tariff mechanism illegal, a move that heightens uncertainty for global trade and supply chains.
A Dutch-language YouTube footer lists site links and legal references, including a 2026 copyright and the line YouTube, een bedrijf van Google.
YouTuber Marques Brownlee says Tesla stopped responding so he borrowed a Model Y Performance from a New Jersey dealer for a January review, which remained largely positive despite some criticisms.
Jamf Threat Labs reverse engineered Predator iOS samples and found a single hook that suppresses both the green camera and orange microphone status dots by nulling the Objective-C self pointer. The technique requires prior kernel-level compromise and code injection into system processes and does not represent a new iOS vulnerability.
Los Angeles County sued Roblox on February 19, accusing the platform of enabling predators; Roblox says it disputes the claims and will defend itself while continuing to strengthen safety measures.
Mars is not a backyard frontier but an environment that kills unprotected humans quickly; surviving requires sealed, shielded habitats, vast energy, and continuous support from Earth.
Company tells Sen. Ed Markey its remote agents advise the automated driving system but do not drive, and says about 70 agents are on duty at any time split between the US and the Philippines.
After FOSDEM, F-Droid and other app stores added banners to rebut claims Google canceled its August lock-down plans, while F-Droid Basic ships a new alpha and hundreds of apps receive updates.
A Super Bowl spot for Amazon Ring reignited debate over consumer cameras and corporate surveillance, prompting Ring to scrap a deal with Flock Safety and spotlighting how home devices and AI tools feed law enforcement and immigration agencies.
A public Elastic instance discovered the week of January 12, 2026 contained roughly 3 billion email/password records and 2.7 billion personal records with Social Security numbers, some of which were verified as real and likely assembled from older breaches.
At Stanford after meetings with tech leaders, Senator Bernie Sanders said the US is not ready for the scale and speed of AI change and called for a moratorium on new AI data centers while policymakers catch up; Congressman Ro Khanna agreed on risks but favors regulated growth and efficiency measures.
Senate Bill 26-051 would require operating system providers to collect age data and supply an age bracket signal to apps, moving enforcement into mobile ecosystems instead of regulating individual websites.
Walmart will offer an eight-hour Google AI Professional Certification to frontline and corporate staff as the company seeks to upskill employees amid low AI fluency and growing workplace use.
Hyperscalers and Indian conglomerates announced record capital commitments totaling hundreds of billions as world leaders and AI executives met in India, alongside deals, supply chain pacts and a few controversies.
Police say 21-year-old Kim mixed prescribed benzodiazepine sedatives into drinks that led to two deaths and one unconsciousness, and investigators found she repeatedly asked ChatGPT about the risks of mixing sleeping pills with alcohol.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr launched the Pledge America Campaign asking stations to air patriotic programming, including starting each broadcast day with the Star Spangled Banner or the Pledge of Allegiance, ahead of the nation's 250th anniversary.
Speaking at an Indian Express event in India, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed high water use claims about ChatGPT, called total AI energy demand a real concern, and urged faster adoption of nuclear, wind and solar.
Municipalities are signing and keeping Flock license plate readers because vendors offer low upfront costs, policing benefits, and funding offsets, even as communities raise privacy and civil liberty concerns.
Grok returned the adult performer’s personal details earlier this month, after which fake Facebook accounts and stolen clips labeled with her real name began circulating online, and Dahl says she wants to reclaim the situation.
Prominent founders and investors from Steve Jobs to Peter Thiel and Evan Spiegel say they tightly restrict their children’s device use, a contrast to the attention economy their companies helped create as researchers and regulators raise alarms about youth screen time.
What began with Maine's 2002 laptop program has grown into a nationwide push for devices in schools, and researchers now link increased in-class screen time with declining standardized test performance and weaker attention.
Independent outlet printed 3,500 riso zines documenting the tech behind ICE raids, mailed preorders, and published a free PDF and human-translated Spanish version after copies sold out.
On the first day of the new semester, students at multiple universities marched and chanted against Iran's clerical leadership, days after a deadly government crackdown extinguished a nationwide protest movement.
Social media videos and multiple reports show students chanting anti government slogans and facing Basij paramilitaries outside Sharif University and other Tehran campuses as nationwide ceremonies mark victims of January clashes.
French president Emmanuel Macron wrote to US president Donald Trump asking him to remove December visa restrictions placed on European figures including Thierry Breton after the United States accused them of extraterritorial censorship.
France, Poland, Germany, the UK and Italy launched LEAP to co-produce inexpensive air defenses and autonomous drones after cross-border drone incidents strained European security.
President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected US pressure as indirect nuclear talks continue and Washington increases its military presence in the Gulf while President Trump says he is considering limited strikes.
Delhi Police say coordinated raids in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu uncovered an eight-member Lashkar-e-Toiba module allegedly directed from Bangladesh by a fugitive LeT handler with claimed ISI backing.
Protests over a January crackdown turned violent at multiple Tehran campuses while the US boosts naval forces in the region and President Trump says limited strikes on Iran remain under consideration.
President Masoud Pezeshkian declared Iran will not submit to pressure during nuclear talks as satellite imagery shows a large US fighter jet buildup in Jordan; meanwhile student protests, death sentences for demonstrators, and a rise in arrests of Christians have intensified domestic tensions.
Hundreds of students at multiple universities, including Tehran's Sharif University, held anti-government demonstrations and clashed with pro-government supporters as tensions rise amid US military moves and nuclear talks.